#248 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
Streetwise Hebrew
TLV1 Studios
4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
We're getting ever closer to elections day in Israel. So over the past few weeks, every time we turned on the news we would hear politicians calling one another a liar.
How do we say liar in Hebrew? How do we say white lies? Guy tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the root sheker (ש.ק.ר).
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New Words and Expressions:
Sheker, shkarim - Lie, lies - שקר, שקרים
Sheker lavan - White lie - שקר לבן
Sheker gas - Blunt lie - שקר גס
Sheker ve-kazav - Downright lie - שקר וכזב
Shkarim ktanim - Small lies - שקרים קטנים
Leshaker le-mishehu - To lie to someone - לשקר למישהו
Hu shiker li ba-panim - He lied to my face, bluntly - הוא שיקר לי בפנים
Al teshakri oti - Don’t lie to me - אל תשקרי אותי
Shakran - Liar - שקרן
Eize shakran/shakranit - What a liar - איזה שקרן/שקרנית
Dai, ya shakran/shakranit - Stop it, you liar - די, יא שקרן/שקרנית
Ata im ha-hamtsa’ot shelcha - You and your inventions - אתה/את עם ההמצאות שלך
Ata oved alai/At ovedet alai - You’re kidding me - את עובדת עליי
Shakran sidrati - Serial liar - שקרן סדרתי
Shakran patologi - Pathological liar - שקרן פתולוגי
Ariza - Pack, packaging - אריזה
Ramai - Cheater, swindler - רמאי
Playlist and Clips:
Shlomo Artzi - Tagidi (lyrics)
Yehudit Ravits - Ahava Yomyomit (lyrics)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is T.L.B. 1. |
| 0:07.0 | St. |
| 0:11.0 | St. St. Why? |
| 0:12.0 | Chilum. It's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew. We're getting closer to |
| 0:16.8 | Elections Day in Israel and so today we'll talk about a route that is perhaps |
| 0:21.0 | too often used by politicians to accuse one another of being a liar, |
| 0:26.2 | Shim Kuf Resh, Shekur, lie. This episode will be about more than just dirty politics. |
| 0:33.2 | Don't worry. |
| 0:34.0 | We'll cover other goodies as well. |
| 0:35.8 | The Ghi-mat-my-tol-melt. |
| 0:39.8 | That-guidishke-eromelt. That-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hmyh, Tagiddie Sheker or a met. |
| 0:43.0 | Taggiddie Sheker or a met. |
| 0:45.0 | Tell me Sheker, a lie or a met, or truth. |
| 0:50.0 | Sheker is a lie, a met or truth. |
| 0:53.0 | Sheker is a lie. I spoke about a met truth on episode number 63. |
| 0:58.0 | For the first, Gile Sheva, |
| 0:59.0 | I was going to make a concept of that. |
| 1:01.0 | Sheker, she was my empathy. |
| 1:02.0 | She had me impati. I would be call the sotov la her rings. Gheer Gheer Shemunami a patia. |
| 1:02.6 | She more will be called the sotov leering. |
| 1:05.0 | See, or when Vouvan, to Shekere LaVane. |
| 1:07.0 | Shekere LaVane, white lie. |
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